Re: How to verify if subscriber exists?

Agreed, Tony.
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:29:10 -0000, "TonyS" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi Joe,
>
>My point was that 'Right way' is meaningful if there are choices or
>alternatives!
>
>Tony S.
>
>"Joe Webb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]
>> Throwing exceptions is a *very* resource intensive operation and
>> should not be part of the normal design of an application. It should
>> only be used for truly unexpected events.
>>
>> However, having said that, I do not know of a way to check to see if a
>> subscriber exists without using a try catch block.
>>
>> One thing that I do to try to minimize that, though, is to have a
>> non-SSNS table that has subscriberIds and their passwords (remember
>> that SSNS doesn't have the concept of subscriber passwords). So before
>> I do anything that might cause a subscriber exception, I check it
>> through the password table.
>>
>> HTH...
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
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>> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 23:51:40 -0000, "TonyS" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>What's does 'right way' mean?
>>>'Right way' is subjective and changes with time.
>>>
>>>Similarly 'Bad practice', in the absence of something else found within a
>>>reasonable time searching, is meaningless I think.
>>>
>>>Tony S.
>>>
>>>"Aleksey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>news:[email protected]
>>>> The question was: how to do this without getting OutOfRange or any other
>>>> Exception. This is a VERY BAD practice. One should never through
>>>> exceptions
>>>> casually - they consume resources and slow down execution. Thanks for
>>>> your
>>>> advice, but there must be a right way to verify if a subscriber exists.
>>>>
>>>> Aleksey
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "TonyS" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I thought I had posted this snippet that helps with your query
>>>>>
>>>>> Tony S.
>>>>> Public Function IsExistingSubscriber(ByVal subscriberId As String) As
>>>>> Boolean
>>>>>
>>>>> Dim Instance As New NSInstance(Me.sdm_InstName)
>>>>>
>>>>> Dim Application As New NSApplication(Instance, Me.sdm_AppName)
>>>>>
>>>>> If Not instance Is Nothing Then
>>>>>
>>>>> Dim subscriber As Subscriber
>>>>>
>>>>> Dim subscriberEnumeration As SubscriberEnumeration
>>>>>
>>>>> subscriberEnumeration = New SubscriberEnumeration(instance)
>>>>>
>>>>> Try
>>>>>
>>>>> subscriber = subscriberEnumeration(subscriberId)
>>>>>
>>>>> Return True
>>>>>
>>>>> Catch ex As IndexOutOfRangeException
>>>>>
>>>>> IsExistingSubscriber = False
>>>>>
>>>>> Catch ex As Exception
>>>>>
>>>>> IsExistingSubscriber = False
>>>>>
>>>>> End Try
>>>>>
>>>>> Else
>>>>>
>>>>> Return False
>>>>>
>>>>> End If
>>>>>
>>>>> End Function
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Aleksey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>>> news:[email protected]
>>>>> > What is the right way to check if a subscriber exists already?
>>>>> > Subscriber.Add() raises an error if the ID is already there, and
>>>>> > SubscriberEnumeration raises an error if it is not there.
>>>>> > How can I do that without errors? I cannot find a method or property
>>>>> > for
>>>>> > that...
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
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